Stephen Joyce

The presiding state appellate judge in a lawsuit involving former President Donald Trump‘s Chicago hotel expressed doubts on Wednesday that Illinois law can force the hotel’s insurer to cover fines for alleged environmental violations.

Jones Day lawyers will take the helm of a landmark Illinois privacy case from Morgan Lewis & Brockius LLP after a trial loss of $228 million for the client.

BNSF Railway Co. will head to trial Oct. 2 in its bid to pare down the $228 million penalty it faces for collecting workers’ fingerprints in violation of Illinois’ landmark privacy law.

A former Illinois obstetrician faces professional misconduct charges in more than 50 lawsuits accusing the doctor of drunkenness on the job and disrobing to display his tattoos to patients.

Timothy Mapes, the right-hand man of the nation’s longest-serving speaker of a state House of Representatives, repeatedly and intentionally lied to a federal grand jury and corruptly obstructed justice to protect his former boss, a jury decided Thursday.

A union representing workers at two shuttered restaurants that were located in Chicago’s Hancock Tower claimed the eatery’s owners didn’t give employees legally required advance notice of the shutdowns, violating a federal labor statute.

An Illinois lawyer diverted to off-shore accounts $300,000 from a family trust intended to benefit the National Rifle Association and the American Legion Auxiliary, the NRA claimed in a Tuesday court filing.

Calling for an “honest government,” a federal judge on Wednesday sentenced an Illinois gaming executive to five-and-a-half years in prison, exceeding the sentencing guidelines, for bribing two state politicians and then lying about it to the FBI.

Industry standards intended to promote animal welfare were actually a “sham” and a “disguise” allowing food producers to reduce supply and illegally drive up the cost of eggs for a decade, a federal jury heard on Thursday.

The tributes continue to pour in for former Galway All-Ireland wining football manager John O’Mahony who died at the weekend aged 71. This morning on Galway Talks, presenter John Morley spoke to several guests who knew and worked clooely with John throughout a highly successful career in sport and politics. We will hear from John’s selectors in 1998 and 2001,